Bible verse
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
Luke 18:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 18.
5 yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.
7 Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
8 I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
9 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
13 But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
KJV
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
ASV
And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:
ERV
And he spake also this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:
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